Böcker i River Publishers Series in Automation, Control and Robotics-serien

Provides an overview of a series of advanced research lines in robotics as well as of design and development methodologies for intelligent robots and their intelligent components. The book integrates state of the art computational intelligence based techniques for automatic robot control to novel distributed sensing and data integration methodologies that can be applied to intelligent robotics.

Systems, cybernetics, control, and automation (SCCA) are four interrelated and overlapping scientific and technological fields that have contributed substantially to the development, growth, and progress of human society. A large number of models, methods, and tools were developed that assure high efficiency of SCCA applied to practical situations

Modern robots have arrived at a mature state both in their mechanical and mental abilities. An Introduction to Robophilosophy explores the philosophical questions that arise in the development, creation, and use of mental, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic robots that are capable of semiautonomous / autonomous operation, decision making and human-like action.

Presents the results of a research project, funded by European Commission, STIFF-FLOP: STIFFness controllable Flexible and Learn-able manipulator for surgical OPerations. In Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), tools go through narrow openings and manipulate soft organs that can move, deform, or change stiffness.

Presents novel algorithms for academic search, recommendation and association rule mining that have been developed and optimized for different commercial as well as academic purpose systems. Along with the design and implementation of algorithms, a major part of the work presented involves the development of new systems both for commercial as well as for academic use.

Highlights the underpinning fundamentals of Condition-Based Maintenance related conceptual ideas, an overall idea of preventive maintenance, the economic impact and technical solution. The core of this book covers the outcome of the Cyber-Physical System based Proactive Collaborative Maintenance project, also known as MANTIS.

Contains selected best papers which were presented at XXIV International conference on automatic control ""Automatics 2017"". The book is divided into two main parts, a first on Theory of Automatic Control and the second on Control Systems Applications.

The Digital Shopfloor Alliance aims at providing leading edge and standards based digital automation solutions, along with guidelines and blueprints for their effective deployment. This book provides a comprehensive description of some of the most representative solutions.

Control systems are pervasive in our lives. Our homes have environmental controls. The appliances we use at home, such as the washing machine, microwave, etc. have embedded controllers. We fly in airplanes and drive automobiles, which make extensive use of control systems. The increasing automation in the past few decades has increased our reliance on control systems.A First Course in Control System Design discusses control systems design from a model-based perspective as applicable to single-input single-output systems. The emphasis in this book is on understanding and applying the techniques that enable the design of effective control systems. The book covers the time-domain and the frequency-domain design methods, as well as the design of continuous-time and discrete-time systems.Technical topics discussed in the book include: Modeling of physical systemsAnalysis of transfer function and state variable modelsControl system design via root locus Control system design in the state-spaceControl design of sampled-data systemsCompensator design via frequency response modification

Advanced Control Systems: Theory and Applications provides an overview of advanced research lines in control systems as well as in design, development and implementation methodologies for perspective control systems and their components in different areas of industrial and special applications.

This book describes the various AI, IoT, robotics, mathematical and computational modelling tools that have been used to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book aims to cover the recent advances in time series and applications of computation intelligence for time series analysis.

Recent Developments in Automatic Control Systems consists of extended versions of selected papers presented at the XXVI International Conference on Automatic Control "Automation 2020" (October 13-15, 2020, Kyiv, Ukraine) which is the main Ukrainian Control Conference organized by the Ukrainian Association on Automatic Control.